Owed Supras and Mitsubishi 3000 GT's, and now have a beautiful yellow 99 M Roadster......MOST FUN you can have with your clothes on. Had it for 6 years, and live in Minnesota so only driven in the summer. Put 10,000 miles trouble free miles on it. Perfectly matched transmission and motor will put a smile on your face every time you drive it. Now with 70K miles on it still looks and drives like new and I bet I could sell it rignt now and at least break even.
@ASMR James Fuck yeah! love that. Im tyring to get a 3.0 here for under 180k miles and there between 9k and 15 k depending on milage and the wheels. usually 5 owners and accidents too. That 2.8 price is a steal.
Drove a z3, and it was great, but the Toyota MR2 handles better! So does the miata.... But the BMW has a much better power-to-weight ratio. I love roadsters haha. need to look into a TT
MR2 has better turn-in due to low polar moment of inertia but it is twitchy and edgy like the Ferrari in the video. Not quite as 'fun' but more technically rewarding.
THANK YOU!!! I was looking to see this video again for years. Shit, I don't consider myself a gray dino, but oh... manual gearboxes, mechanical LSDs, hydraulic steerings. THOSE WERE DRIVERS' CARS!!!
in wikipedia its written about 306: wikipedia: the 306 was widely regarded as the best hohatch of its time (90s) and all magazines and car programs says the same, love this car
The funny thing is that these Bmw z3 to this day still outperforms any current day Miata ! At over 300 horsepower these little Z3 M are deliciously evil !
That's 99%, not 100%. One car that immediately comes to mind is the original Renault 5 Le Car, which was mid-engine fwd and sold quite well. One could also go by the argument that while all fwd cars are front-engine (except they're not, as it's been pointed out), not all front-engine cars are fwd. Assuming leaves you with the potential of being wrong. Fully designating a car's powertrain puts it all out there in a factual manner.
Mazda miata's are already one of the best handling cars in the world. Now with the turbo u will have more power & will have the ability for wheels to spin & really drift them corners. ;-)
yes i know all that lol.. read my original comment. my point was 99% of FWD production cars have the engine over the front wheels.. so it makes no sense to say front engine'd fwd.. the logical thing would be to simply just say fwd. i didn't indicate that all front engine'd cars are fwd.. i was just saying basically all fwd's are front engine'd
The rally driver's from Volkswagen. Lamborghini, the biggest rival of Ferrari, is owned by VW, as many of you know, although this was likely to be filmed before VW bought Lamborghini.
Oops, yes, sorry, my mistake - I only started seriously watching Top Gear when Jeremy Clarkson was the front man and saw Tiff Needell as the opposition, not realising he was a previous presenter of TG, which started in 1977 with Angela Rippon
@@ezicarus8216 i don't care who you are or where you come from, a plus 90 degree drift at that speed in that car is unsuspecting for most people because it certainly does not happen on public roads. If so it's extremely rare.
pcwmsn I have a stock 1994 MX5. Stock suspension, stock sway bars. It wobbles around over any undulations, it unsettles when it’s not supposed to and it grips when you want it to let go a bit. Not a great setup.
My stock '95 Miata has a very fun sporty economy car feel. I could put narrower tires on my '97 2.8 z3 and get all the 'fun' feel of the Miata, and much more, like sports car acceleration! But I would have to modify/upgrade every suspension and powertrain component in my Miata to get the z3 performance. Miata is NOT always the answer. The newer Miatas are still sporty cars, the 2.8, 3.0, and 3.2 z3s and z4s were Sports Cars!
Several surprises here... I thought the Brits would go for the Poo-joe... Nice and safe and relatively slow... I also thought they bring out the Z3 1.9 4-cylinder...the politically-correct version of the Roadster. Instead, they show up with an M. What's with no car with a diesel lawnmower engine? And they actually tested a Ferrari in this group? Why?
I owned that exact Z3 M Roadster in SIlver and have owned and driven several sports cars and its is easily the best handling car I've ever driven! Most of that grip is derived mechanically from superior design as opposed to computer assistance. Just a brilliant and totally analog car! MANUAL ONLY!!!
samin2012 with these cars, it’s more about suspension setup and personal preference. The MX5 is lighter, but this means less controllable slides. However, the M Roadster has a wider track and wider tires, which also makes it more prone to snap oversteer. The suspension and the sway bars make a huge difference with these cars, and they can both be tuned to handling perfection. (Oh, and don’t forget about chassis bracing. But not too much, a flexible chassis is a forgiving chassis)
use to have a GTI-6 and loved it loads and now funnily enough i own a Z3 M which is even better, it is an animal!! though i wouldnt wack it down a B-road as fast as the GTI-6 simply because of its unruly back end, loads of power, light rear end on tight road = crash! great fun on the more open twisty roads though ;) never driven an evo 6 but ive always wanted too they look like great fun and a bit of turbo wallop always gives the car a little drama, ferrari's great but way out of my price range
BRILLIANT Motoring TV. Just How it should be, NOT the COMEDY Show it Became. Real ACTUAL Drivers. Tiff Needell Was a Racing Driver. NO WHITE SUIT & HELMET to Exceed 30 Mph. ! Top GEAR Lost the Plot Decades ago, & Became Impossible to Watch. Top Gear Was a Motoring TV Show, Then it Became Suitable for 4 yr old Boys & 7 yrs old Girls to Watch With GRANDMOTHER. Certainly Not for Car Buyers & Motoring Enthusiasts. Top Gear Should have Been an Advert for BARBIE Doll Accessories .
wtf are you high!? I think you should read my comment again! I SAID: "99%". NOT 100% !.. and yeah!.. "immediately"!, because everyone drives them!.. lol secondly.. I am aware not all cars with the "engine mounted in-the-front" are "front-wheel-drive"!.. I ALREADY STATED THAT!! how can people be so blatantly oblivious.
Such a nonsense and misleading review. Think of the target viewer of this show - definitely not a racing driver with a wide track as a playground. Roads are way too narrow for such powerslides. And as much as I like the Z3M, Joe Average does not have the skills to catch the bimmer once it breakes loose like 8n this video.
This test is silly. Everyone knows the 360 is not even the best handling ferrari, let alone the best handling car. And I don't think the Z3 was BMWs finest achievement either. Also I think its fair to say what translates as thrilling on a wide open airfield is not necessarily what works and is useable on the road. As a road car the evo would shit all over them. And actually the pug is probably the best car in terms of fun per £, with everyday useability. So I dissagree with their verdict.
Where is the integra ! 1998 dc2 would wipe the floor with all of them lol I've had one and stuffed 2 of the cars in this video in street races, so don't think there choice in cars is right really lol
